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  • Desert city uses water, then uses it again

    May 27, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Tucson has slashed its per capita water consumption by more than a third, and one of the more startling ways it's done that is by reusing water after it's flushed down the toilet or run through a washing machine.

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  • Fewer dropouts, more degrees: How Walla Walla Community College does it

    May 17, 2014 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Walla Walla, Washington

    Individualized advice and counseling, boosted by software tools, is helping hundreds more students earn degrees and certificates each year at Walla Walla Community College in Washington.

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  • A Pennsylvania district takes on cyber charters

    May 13, 2014 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Quakertown, Pennsylvania

    The small rural school district of Quakertown in Bucks County has become a national model for how to use technology to transform the public school experience. The majority of students in the district take at least one class online and all ninth graders are given laptops they can take to college when they graduate.

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  • De Blasio Looks Toward Sweden for Road Safety

    May 12, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    The rate of roadway deaths in Sweden is at an international low due to an approach called Vision Zero. Now the country’s approach faces perhaps its stiffest test: the streets of New York City.

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  • A first in Minnesota, cities launch system to treat, stash water underground

    April 16, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Michael, Minnesota

    Capturing water during times of plenty, storing it underground, and pulling it out later when it's needed—it's a strategy used in the western and southeastern parts of the country, and now, for the first time, in Minnesota.

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  • From fish to pipes, Minnesota firms see opportunity in growing water challenge

    April 14, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    Creating an indoor aquaculture operation in an old brewery is, oddly enough, using surprisingly little water.

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  • Even in region with abundant water, residents turn to bottles and try to conserve

    March 20, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Fountain, Minnesota

    Some communities are being forced to take steps—sometimes costly ones, like digging deeper wells—to both tap and protect their groundwater.

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  • How One Teacher Achieved Insane Reading Growth Last Year

    March 18, 2014 |

    EdSurge News |

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    Response Location: United States, Navarre, Florida

    Tracy Fischetti's high school students improved their reading level scores about three times as much as expected last year, thanks to her innovative approach of heavy content integration into collective class activities, plus an emphasis on students tracking their own Lexile level reading growth.

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  • Twenty Buses a Day: The High Stakes Race to Create a Global Cholera Early Warning System

    March 18, 2014 |

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    Response Location: Switzerland, Geneva

    Though individual treatments are cheap, cholera is costing the third world countless lives. Using modern technology, researchers work to exterminate it and other curable diseases.

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  • Can Cell Phones Improve Latinas' Health?

    March 17, 2014 |

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    Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

    When many Latina immigrant women arrive in the United States, they don't have access to the internet to learn about the resources available to them. Únete Latina, a program run by Latinas, sends mobile phone texts to women with supportive messages in Spanish and with information about relevant news items and public services.

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